Question RE: "File>Import XDCAM Proxy"...

I doing some tests to educate myself on AVID/XDCAM and I am seeing a discrepancy between the documentation and what I am seeing in the AVID UI/File bar options....

In all of the documentation that I'm looking at, as provided by Sony & Avid, there is supposedly an "Import XDCAM Proxy" option under the File menu.... except on the 3 Avids that I've looked at apparently (Symphony v6.0.1.1, MC6.x and MC5.5.3)... Any thoughts?

Also, I have the "Automatically import Proxy..." checked in the Import settings... but all that is doing is an AMA import from the XDCAM disk in the PDW-U1... less than helpful.

I would appreciate any help.... This seems to be oddly difficult, and I'm not sure why...

Since I noticed your based in Los Angeles, if you're about to go into an XDCAM edit, you might want to contact Fotokem. I don't actually work for Fotokem, but the show I'm working on is renting systems from them, and they gave us this ingest system with a proprietary ingest software that allows us to bring in either the proxy or the proxy and the full res XDCAM clip, rewraps it as MXF media, and assigns it a reelname. You can bring in two XDCAM discs at one time without tying up your Avid transcoding. Seriously a great system.